4.
Since such a form of pension arrangement would
provide the more beneficial arrangements to all
judges in Hong Kong and not only to those who might
be appointed from the local Bar, there would be no
difficulty as between one judge and another. You may wish to
might consider whether it would be appropriate to go
so far as to provide the more generous constant for judges as opposed to the public service in general
as was done in the West Indies.
54.
A revised scheme based on the West Indies moel, maintaining
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but eaving the one six-hundredth constant, would
enable a judge to earn half pay pension after 15
years service, and two-thirds pay pension after
23 years service. Such a scheme, because of the
weighting given to pension earning in the first ten
years of service, would also take due account of
the problem which would otherwise arise in cases
where an appointment from the local Bar took place
in middle life, and thus too late to satisfy the
minimum qualification clause of the normal pensions
scheme.
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